Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Stable Channel Release and Beta Channel Update

The Chrome team is excited to announce the release of Chrome 23 to the Stable Channel. 23.0.1271.64 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. Chrome 23 contains a number of new features including GPU accelerated video decoding on Windows and easier website permissions. More detailed updates are available on the Chrome Blog. Security fixes and rewards:Please seethe Chromium security page for more detail. Note that the referenced bugs may be kept private until a majority of our users are up to date with the fix.Occasionally, we issue special rewards for bugs outside of Chrome, particularly where the bug is very severe and/or we are able to partially work around the issue:

Many of the above bugs were detected usingAddressSanitizer.The security issues in V8 have been fixed in v8-3.13.7.5.We’d also like to thank miaubiz for working with us during the development cycle and preventing security regressions from ever reaching the stable channel. Rewards were issued.This version also has a new Adobe Flash. More details can be found here.

Full details about what changes are in this release are available in the SVN revision log. Interested in hopping on the stable channel? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.Karen GrunbergGoogle Chrome

I've had an issue for a few weeks due to the new version of flash. When I unplug or plug in my logitech g35 headset (remove/add audio device) I have to close Chrome and reopen it before browser audio is out put to my headset, or to my speakers if I was unplugging my headset. It seems as though flash is having trouble detecting that the default audio device in Windows has changed.

Very nice, it would be good now to get a 64-bit version for Mac OS X and a share(Twitter, etc.)-functionality as part of the browser. (This share-functionality exists on Chrome iOS and on Safari Mac OSX)

When I press on the 149904 link to view details for the Mac performance issue, I get "Your client does not have permission to get URL /p/chromium/issues/detail?id=149904 from this server. That’s all we know."

I'm not exactly sure if it's Flash or Chrome's problem, but if I unplug my Koss headphones midway through a YouTube video, the sound gets cut off and doesn't produce any sound through my speakers, which are always on. Same thing vice-versa. If while I'm watching a video on YouTube, and I have my speakers on, and then turn them off and plug in my headphones, there's no sound unless I wait for ~15 seconds or restart Chrome.

Chrome Team,Please stop making stupid UI tweaks. Having a red circle x close button on a tab not only looks dumb, but is completely unnecessary. The grey one was perfectly fine and got the point across without adding playful color. Next thing you know you are going to be having everything popping up colors everywhere.Also, greying out the bookmarks dropdown text is REALLY annoying.